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Austin rules. God I wish I still lived there.... Erica, you make me want to cry.

Posted by Providence | September 16, 2007 5:02 PM
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So you fear a plague of intestinal parasites if some bars and restaurants are allowed to welcome dogs, and yet you lament that Seattle doesn't have pulled pork vendors with no running water to wash their dishes and their hands?

I guess technically you're a liberal, of some sort, but that does not make you a member of the reality-based community.

Posted by elenchos | September 16, 2007 5:23 PM
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Since moving to this area four years ago I've definitely decided that Seattle is a schizo town. On the one hand it's very liberal and tolerant and open minded. On the other, the city guvmt seems to obsess on strip clubs, bars, and nightclubs. Seattle seems like one of the *least* tolerant to nightlife. Why the fuck is this? Is it the dumb mayor, who seems to be a closet Republican?

One of the charms of San Francisco is that you can sit in the Stinking Rose, the finest garlic-centered Italian restaurant in the nation, and watch the rumpled middle age men slink into the titty bar across the street. Now *that's* civilization!

Posted by Big Sven | September 16, 2007 5:23 PM
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elenchos - you don't think that ECB would actually fly to TX burning precious carbon based fuel and eat pork the worst of all foods vis-a-vis GW and eat in restuarant without dog certain protection, do you?

she's in seattle riding her bike from salad bar to salad bar

perhaps they allow trailer food because of empty lots all over the town?

bird flu

Posted by whatever | September 16, 2007 5:58 PM
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When I saw the photo, I assumed ECB was writing about Austin taco trucks--a phenomenon we have come to know and love here in Seattle. But somehow she was using a photo that could have been any of the approximately 30 thousand taco truck/buses in the Seattle metro area to illustrate the kind of street restaurant we *don't* have here. I don't follow...
Admittedly, she has a point about the impossibility of getting a beer with your street food--a strange confluence of the city's Progressive-era tee-totaling alcohol codes and hiz honor the mayor's peculiar anti-nightlife campaign.

Posted by suren~o | September 16, 2007 6:49 PM
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i moved here from austin three years ago and i have to say that i appreciate it more now that i'm away. i never realized how amazing austin is... the food, the culture, the grit, the grime, the sun, the land, the beer, the beautiful people-- everyone from seattle that i have taken there to visit hasn't wanted to leave.

i will be going back as soon as i am done with this city, which is going to be soon.

Posted by keep austin weird | September 16, 2007 7:25 PM
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buy - buy

Posted by whatever | September 16, 2007 7:43 PM
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i'll bet the bus drivers in austin even let you off at curbs not designated as bus stops, too... sounds like utopia

Posted by oneway | September 16, 2007 7:51 PM
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Posted by josh | September 16, 2007 8:29 PM
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the larry's in lower queen anne had a walk-in beer cooler. i have no idea if it is still there, or what the replacement store is like at all for that matter.

Posted by x c attle | September 16, 2007 9:22 PM
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Why would you waste your time going to Whole Foods when you could go to Central Market?!

Posted by Lee Gibson | September 16, 2007 9:29 PM
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Oh lord, Central Market gains 100 points for being awesome, and loses 100 points for giving me food poisoning every single time I've bought sushi from them.

Posted by Alex-jon | September 16, 2007 9:51 PM
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grocery store sushi is always a bad idea.

central market is far superior to whole foods, though the flagship WF lets you buy a beer from the beer alley and walk around and drink it in the store! you can even sit on the patio and eat food outside and drink beer, something that would never happen outside a store in uptight seattle.

aside from that, i have never had ice cream as good as Amy's Ice Cream from Austin... yum.

Posted by keep austin weird | September 16, 2007 10:13 PM
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Come on Erica, what about the creepy guy selling hotdogs by Rplace on weekend nights to the you'd-have-to-be-drunk-to-buy-one crowd? Or the guys on Pike selling grilled-up street food by neighbours?

Posted by Jake | September 16, 2007 10:17 PM
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All the taco trucks and walk-in beer coolers in the world couldn't change this simple fact:

Texas sucks ass.

Posted by pablocjr | September 16, 2007 10:32 PM
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Man you guys complain about EVERYTHING. Everything sucks but you. Whatever.

Posted by Michael | September 16, 2007 10:49 PM
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It hurts me in my heart to see so many people unhappy in Seattle.

I would do anything to get you guys to move out of Seattle and to be somewhere else where you're happier.

You're not stuck in this city. There is help for you poor poor people.

And if I have to organize an army of Public Iterns, I will work to get all of you people who are living in despair here to move away to That Much Cooler City.

That moment cannot come soon enough.

Posted by matthew fisher wilder | September 17, 2007 12:57 AM
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"nearly impossible"

Behold the northgate taco truck: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1324095

Posted by nbc | September 17, 2007 1:32 AM
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Taqueria La Fondita or the White Center Taco Truck (15th and 98th SW) kicks butt of all taco trucks. Tortas. burritos. Mulitas. Horchata. Yum.

http://www.lostacotrucks.com/seattle/

Posted by LH | September 17, 2007 9:46 AM
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I think it's like comparing apples to oranges -- very nice apples and very nice oranges. Lived in and loved both cities - and they both have their equally great culture... You can't really do 'Austin' in Seattle

Posted by Jenniferlayne | September 17, 2007 10:34 AM
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Re: Taco trucks, yes, I'm aware of them (see the link I provided). My point was that the regulations (one sink, yes, but FOUR?) make it very difficult to get a mobile food business going.

Re: the ECB-should-move-back-to-Texas chorus: Utterly predictable.

And BTW, organic, non-feedlot pork (which this was) is much more climate-friendly than any kind of beef.

Posted by ECB | September 17, 2007 11:44 AM
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So “red” Texas has more freedom and less regulation than “blue” Washington? To quote Captain Renault "I'm shocked, shocked"…

Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me | September 17, 2007 11:55 AM
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No, you aren't suppose to sing the praises of Austin in a Seattle paper/SLOG. We want them to stay there and not move here and raise the price of rent and throw their uptight rules on our party. "Keep Austin Beautiful: Don't Move Here". Speaking of party, lest we not forget The Party Barn drive-thru liquor. Yee haw!

-Vic who moved back to ATX because I got sick of listening to whiny, negative, namby-pamby N'westerners cry about smoking cigarettes, eating meat and their sad, sad Seasonal Affectiveness Disorder.

Posted by TheVicFox! | September 17, 2007 2:05 PM
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Why should I let you risk your life eating from a roach coach with only ONE SINK (gasp!) when you won't let me take my life in my hands by going to a restaurant with dogs? If I can't be free to live my life I'm not going to lift a finger to help you be free to live yours.

Posted by elenchos | September 17, 2007 2:22 PM
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ECB- "And BTW, organic, non-feedlot pork (which this was) is much more climate-friendly than any kind of beef."

How about comparing eating pork to say flying to the moon - ah maybe you could eat a vegie crepe and BTW do you think organic non-feedlot pig shit don't smell?

"The study showed that one kilogram of pig manure can produce 100 liters of methane gas per day"

Posted by whatever | September 17, 2007 6:43 PM
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25: Agreed-- but beef is still worse, which was my point.

Posted by ECB | September 17, 2007 11:37 PM
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But the real point was that you were eating meat - meat eating worse than driving a car. The fact that pork may be less bad than beef (which is in doubt) isn't much of a point. It's like driving a little Hummer.

Posted by whatever | September 18, 2007 6:00 PM

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